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Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2024 25:26
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Ethics of early detection of disease risk factors: A scoping review
Scientific and technological advancements in mapping and understanding the interrelated pathways through which biological and environmental exposures affect disease development create new possibilities for det...
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“She was finally mine”: the moral experience of families in the context of trisomy 13 and 18– a scoping review with thematic analysis
The value of a short life characterized by disability has been hotly debated in the literature on fetal and neonatal outcomes.
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A bioethical perspective on the meanings behind a wish to hasten death: a meta-ethnographic review
The expressions of a “wish to hasten death” or “wish to die” raise ethical concerns and challenges. These expressions are related to ethical principles intertwined within the field of medical ethics, particula...
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Cross-sectional analysis of financial relationships between board certified allergists and the pharmaceutical industry in Japan
Financial interactions between pharmaceutical companies and physicians lead to conflicts of interest. This study examines the extent and trends of non-research payments made by pharmaceutical companies to boar...
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Layered vulnerability and researchers’ responsibilities: learning from research involving Kenyan adolescents living with perinatal HIV infection
Carefully planned research is critical to developing policies and interventions that counter physical, psychological and social challenges faced by young people living with HIV/AIDS, without increasing burdens...
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The role of bioethics services in paediatric intensive care units: a qualitative descriptive study
There is considerable variation in the functionality of bioethical services in different institutions and countries for children in hospital, despite new challenges due to increasing technology supports for ch...
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Moral approval of xenotransplantation in Egypt: associations with religion, attitudes towards animals and demographic factors
Xenotransplantation has great potential as an alternative to alleviate the shortage of organs for donation. However, given that the animal most suited for xenotransplantation is the pig, there are concerns tha...
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Evaluating the understanding of the ethical and moral challenges of Big Data and AI among Jordanian medical students, physicians in training, and senior practitioners: a cross-sectional study
To examine the understanding of the ethical dilemmas associated with Big Data and artificial intelligence (AI) among Jordanian medical students, physicians in training, and senior practitioners.
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“That’s just Future Medicine” - a qualitative study on users’ experiences of symptom checker apps
Symptom checker apps (SCAs) are mobile or online applications for lay people that usually have two main functions: symptom analysis and recommendations. SCAs ask users questions about their symptoms via a chat...
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Perceptions of COVID-19 patients in the use of bioethical principles and the physician-patient relationship: a qualitative approach
The COVID-19 pandemic has influenced the approach to the health-disease system, raising the question about the principles of bioethics present in physician–patient relations. The principles while widely accept...
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Cross-cultural perspectives on intelligent assistive technology in dementia care: comparing Israeli and German experts’ attitudes
Despite the great benefits of intelligent assistive technology (IAT) for dementia care – for example, the enhanced safety and increased independence of people with dementia and their caregivers – its practical...
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Conscientious objection and barriers to abortion within a specific regional context - an expert interview study
While most countries that allow abortion on women’s request also grant physicians a right to conscientious objection (CO), this has proven to constitute a potential barrier to abortion access. Conscientious ob...
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Analyzing the composition of the editorial boards in high-impact medical ethics journals: a survey study
The underrepresentation of scholarly works from low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) in academic literature is a documented concern, attributed partly to editorial biases. This trend, prevalent across vari...
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Ethical dilemmas in prioritizing patients for scarce radiotherapy resources
Radiotherapy is an essential component of cancer treatment, yet many countries do not have adequate capacity to serve all patients who would benefit from it. Allocation systems are needed to guide patient prio...
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Questionable research practices of medical and dental faculty in Pakistan – a confession
Intellectual honesty and integrity are the cornerstones of conducting any form of research. Over the last few years, scholars have shown great concerns over questionable research practices (QRPs) in academia. ...
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Integrating ethics in AI development: a qualitative study
While the theoretical benefits and harms of Artificial Intelligence (AI) have been widely discussed in academic literature, empirical evidence remains elusive regarding the practical ethical challenges of deve...
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Compliance with research ethics in epidemiological studies targeted to conflict-affected areas in Western Ethiopia: validity of informed consent (VIC) by information comprehension and voluntariness (ICV)
The conduct of research is critical to advancing human health. However, there are issues of ethical concern specific to the design and conduct of research in conflict settings. Conflict-affected countries ofte...
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Ethics rounds in the ambulance service: a qualitative evaluation
It is a common ethical challenge for ambulance clinicians to care for patients with impaired decision-making capacities while assessing and determining the degree of decision-making ability and considering eth...
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Towards the implementation of law n. 219/2017 on informed consent and advance directives for patients with psychiatric disorders and dementia. Physicians’ knowledge, attitudes and practices in four northern Italian health care facilities
On December 2017 the Italian Parliament approved law n. 219/2017 “Provisions for informed consent and advance directives” regarding challenging legal and bioethical issues related to healthcare decisions and e...
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AI-driven decision support systems and epistemic reliance: a qualitative study on obstetricians’ and midwives’ perspectives on integrating AI-driven CTG into clinical decision making
Given that AI-driven decision support systems (AI-DSS) are intended to assist in medical decision making, it is essential that clinicians are willing to incorporate AI-DSS into their practice. This study takes...
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A scoping review of the ethical impacts of international medical electives on local students and patient care
International electives are often considered a valuable learning opportunity for medical students. Yet, as travelling to lower and middle income countries (LMICs) becomes more common, ethical considerations of...
Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2024 25:5 -
The Diversity Compass: a clinical ethics support instrument for dialogues on diversity in healthcare organizations
Increasing social pluralism adds to the already existing variety of heterogeneous moral perspectives on good care, health, and quality of life. Pluralism in social identities is also connected to health and ca...
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Culturally appropriate consent processes for community-driven indigenous child health research: a scoping review
Current requirements for ethical research in Canada, specifically the standard of active or signed parental consent, can leave Indigenous children and youth with inequitable access to research opportunities or...
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Family roles in informed consent from the perspective of young Chinese doctors: a questionnaire study
Based on the principle of informed consent, doctors are required to fully inform patients and respect their medical decisions. In China, however, family members usually play a special role in the patient’s inf...
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Community engagement in genetics and genomics research: a qualitative study of the perspectives of genetics and genomics researchers in Uganda
Generally, there is unanimity about the value of community engagement in health-related research. There is also a growing tendency to view genetics and genomics research (GGR) as a special category of research...
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The challenges and potential solutions of achieving meaningful consent amongst research participants in northern Thailand: a qualitative study
Achieving meaningful consent can be challenging, particularly in contexts of diminished literacy, yet is a vital part of participant protection in global health research.
Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2023 24:111 -
“Being prevented from providing good care: a conceptual analysis of moral stress among health care workers during the COVID-19 pandemic”
Health care workers (HCWs) are susceptible to moral stress and distress when they are faced with morally challenging situations where it is difficult to act in line with their moral standards. In times of cris...
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Medical students’ and residents’ views on euthanasia
Doctors are increasingly faced with end-of-life decisions. Little is known about how medical students approach euthanasia. The objective of this study was to evaluate, among medical students and residents, the...
Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2023 24:109 -
Ethical considerations for biobanking and use of genomics data in Africa: a narrative review
Biobanking and genomic research requires collection and storage of human tissue from study participants. From participants’ perspectives within the African context, this can be associated with fears and misgiv...
Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2023 24:108 -
Identifying facilitators of and barriers to the adoption of dynamic consent in digital health ecosystems: a scoping review
Conventional consent practices face ethical challenges in continuously evolving digital health environments due to their static, one-time nature. Dynamic consent offers a promising solution, providing adaptabi...
Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2023 24:107 -
Increasing efficiency and well-being? a systematic review of the empirical claims of the double-benefit argument in socially assistive devices
Socially assistive devices (care robots, companions, smart screen assistants) have been advocated as a promising tool in elderly care in Western healthcare systems. Ethical debates indicate various challenges....
Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2023 24:106 -
Equality, diversity, and inclusion in oncology clinical trials: an audit of essential documents and data collection against INCLUDE under-served groups in a UK academic trial setting
Clinical trials should be as inclusive as possible to facilitate equitable access to research and better reflect the population towards which any intervention is aimed. Informed by the UK’s National Institute ...
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Attitude and concerns of healthy individuals regarding post-mortem brain donation. A qualitative study on a nation-wide sample in Italy
Collecting post-mortem brain tissue is essential, especially from healthy “control” individuals, to advance knowledge on increasingly common neurological and mental disorders. Yet, healthy individuals, on whic...
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Correction: Moral conflicts from the justice and care perspectives of Japanese nurses: a qualitative content analysis
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Should AI allocate livers for transplant? Public attitudes and ethical considerations
Allocation of scarce organs for transplantation is ethically challenging. Artificial intelligence (AI) has been proposed to assist in liver allocation, however the ethics of this remains unexplored and the vie...
Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2023 24:102 -
Willingness toward post-mortem body donation to science at a Mexican university: an exploratory survey
Voluntary post-mortem donation to science (PDS) is the most appropriate source for body dissection in medical education and training, and highly useful for biomedical research. In Mexico, unclaimed bodies are ...
Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2023 24:101 -
Objections to assisted dying within institutions: systemic solutions for rapprochement
In this Matters Arising article, we outline how the recent article “The impact on patients of objections by institutions to assisted dying: a qualitative study of family caregivers’ perceptions” (White et al.,...
Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2023 24:100 -
Views on sharing mental health data for research purposes: qualitative analysis of interviews with people with mental illness
Improving the ways in which routinely-collected mental health data are shared could facilitate substantial advances in research and treatment. However, this process should only be undertaken in partnership wit...
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Uncertain futures and unsolicited findings in pediatric genomic sequencing: guidelines for return of results in cases of developmental delay
Massively parallel sequencing techniques, such as whole exome sequencing (WES) and whole genome sequencing (WGS), may reveal unsolicited findings (UFs) unrelated to the diagnostic aim. Such techniques are freq...
Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2023 24:98 -
Developing a digital informed consent app: opportunities and challenges of a new format to inform and obtain consent in public health research
Informed consent procedures for large population-based cohort studies should be comprehensive and easy-to-use. This is particularly challenging when participants from different socio-economic groups and multic...
Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2023 24:97 -
Childhood vaccine refusal and what to do about it: a systematic review of the ethical literature
Parental refusal of routine childhood vaccination remains an ethically contested area. This systematic review sought to explore and characterise the normative arguments made about parental refusal of routine v...
Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2023 24:96 -
Practice of defensive medicine among surgeons in Ethiopia: cross-sectional study
Defensive medicine is physicians’ deviation from standard medical care which is primarily intended either to reduce or avoid medico legal litigation. Although the Federal Ethics Committee review in Ethiopia ha...
Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2023 24:95 -
Development and validation of a tool to assess researchers’ knowledge of human subjects’ rights and their attitudes toward research ethics education in Saudi Arabia
Researchers must adhere to ethical and scientific standards in their research involving human subjects; therefore, their knowledge of human subjects’ rights is essential. A tool to measure the extent of this k...
Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2023 24:94 -
Mapping trust relationships in organ donation and transplantation: a conceptual model
The organ donation and transplantation (ODT) system heavily relies on the willingness of individuals to donate their organs. While it is widely believed that public trust plays a crucial role in shaping donati...
Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2023 24:93 -
Preparing ethical review systems for emergencies: next steps
Ethical review systems need to build on their experiences of COVID-19 research to enhance their preparedness for future pandemics. Recommendations from representatives from over twenty countries include: impro...
Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2023 24:92 -
Analysis of ethical considerations of COVID‑19 vaccination: lessons for future
Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, different countries sought to manufacture and supply effective vaccines to control the disease and prevent and protect public health in society. The implementation...
Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2023 24:91 -
UK health researchers’ considerations of the environmental impacts of their data-intensive practices and its relevance to health inequities
The health sector aims to improve health outcomes and access to healthcare. At the same time, the sector relies on unsustainable environmental practices that are increasingly recognised to be catastrophic thre...
Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2023 24:90 -
The muslim patient and medical treatments based on porcine ingredients
Porcine-derived products serve as an effective solution for a wide range of human ailments; however, there may be objections to their use due to Islamic religious prohibitions on consuming products derived fro...
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The future of FemTech ethics & privacy – a global perspective
We discuss the concept of women’s empowerment in FemTech, considering cultural and legal differences, ethical concerns, and legal consequences. We claim that it is crucial to prioritize privacy, a fundamental ...
Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2023 24:88
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